OK, I am ready to distribute the tally:

For Java:     1 
Against Java: 3

Total : 4

Lines of code written : 0.

Ah, good day's work, time to go home.
-bd


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel O'Connor" <darius at dons.net.au>
> To: ". ." <msucka0xff at programmer.net>
> Subject: Re: [netrek-dev] Netrek config utility source code
> Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 10:40:59 +0930
> 
> 
> On Thursday 04 May 2006 08:51, . . wrote:
> > I think that Microsoft Windows requires different code from Linux, and
> > users tend not to have python, ruby, or perl interpreters installed on
> > their OS. That's why I would not want it in these languages.
> 
> <shrugs>
> All of those languages are trivial to install, they're all smaller installs
> than Java, although as you point out Java is most likely to be installed on
> an end user's PC.
> 
> In all cases the code is the same between Windows & Unix-like platforms
> (unless you try hard to make it not so)
> 
> Since I am not writing it I couldn't object too strongly, but Java is a bit on
> the heavy side IMO :)
> 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Daniel O'Connor" <darius at dons.net.au>
> > > To: netrek-dev at us.netrek.org
> > > Subject: Re: [netrek-dev] Netrek config utility source code
> > > Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 08:42:29 +0930
> > >
> > > On Thursday 04 May 2006 08:18, . . wrote:
> > > > having worked with java in the past, it is very unwieldly as a tool and
> > > > a royal pain. i wouldn't recommend that as a development base for this
> > > > app (or any for that matter). probably ANSI or clean C would be my
> > > > recommendation -- along with adequate documentation ;-). at some point
> > > > this code can be integrated directly into the client as a library and
> > > > invoked via command line switch "--check-config" or something. apache
> > > > httpd has a similar command line to validate the syntax of the config
> > > > file.
> > >
> > > Bleh, use something like Tcl/Tk, Python or Ruby.
> > >
> > > All are cross platform and much more suited to such a task IMO.
> > >
> > > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > > From: Zach <netrek at gmail.com>
> > > > > To: tanner at real-time.com, "Netrek Development Mailing List"
> > > > > <netrek-dev at us.netrek.org> Subject: Re: [netrek-dev] Netrek config
> > > > > utility source code
> > > > > Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 16:06:20 -0400
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Java would be ideal language for such a task. You can run the utility
> > > > > as a web app or standalone on the host machine. Will only have
> > > > > minimal effort to run it on a wide variety of platforms.
> > > > >
> > > > > Zach
> > > > >
> > > > > On 5/3/06, Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> wrote:
> > > > > > >>Written in VB and there is plenty of room for improvement if you
> > > > > > >> have the time.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I do wish it was developed in a language that at least has a shot
> > > > > > of being ported to a different operating system. :-(
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Yes, we can follow the login in VB, but then we have to maintain 2
> > > > > > code-bases, 2 patches, 2 testsuites, 2 installations documents, 2
> > > > > > HOWTOs, etc...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com>          | Phone : (952)943-8700
> > > > > > http://www.real-time.com, Minnesota, Linux | Fax   : (952)943-8500
> > > > > > Key fingerprint = AB15 0BDF BCDE 4369 5B42  1973 7CF1 A709 2CC1
> > > > > > B288
> > >
> > > --
> > > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> > > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> > > "The nice thing about standards is that there
> > > are so many of them to choose from."
> > >    -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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> > > << 2.dat >>
> 
> --
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>    -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
> << 2.dat >>

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